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  2. Sugarcane - Wikipedia

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    Sugarcane is the most widely produced primary crop in the world. Sugarcane, a perennial tropical grass, exhibits a unique growth pattern characterized by lateral shoots emerging at its base, leading to the development of multiple stems. These stems typically attain a height of 3 to 4 meters (approximately 10 to 13 feet) and possess a diameter ...

  3. Non-centrifugal cane sugar - Wikipedia

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    Non-centrifugal cane sugar (NCS) is the technical name given to traditional raw sugar obtained by evaporating water from sugarcane juice. NCS is internationally recognized as a discrete and unique product by the FAO [1] since 1964 and by the World Customs Organization (WCO) since 2007.

  4. Sugarcane mill - Wikipedia

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    A sugar cane mill is a factory that processes sugar cane to produce raw sugar [1] or plantation white sugar. [2] Some sugar mills are situated next to a back-end refinery, that turns raw sugar into (refined) white sugar. [3] The term is also used to refer to the equipment that crushes the sticks of sugar cane to extract the juice. [4]

  5. Sugarcane juice - Wikipedia

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    Sugarcane juice Machine used to crush sugar cane to obtain the juice. Sugarcane juice is the liquid extracted from pressed sugarcane.It is consumed as a beverage in many places, especially where sugarcane is commercially grown, such as Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, North Africa, mainly Egypt, and also in South America.

  6. Sugar refinery - Wikipedia

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    A sugar refinery is a refinery which processes raw sugar from cane or sugar extracted from beets into white refined sugar. Cane sugar mills traditionally produce raw sugar, which is sugar that still contains molasses, giving it more colour (and impurities) than the white sugar which is normally consumed in households and used as an ingredient ...

  7. History of sugar - Wikipedia

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    Saccharum officinarum - sugar cane. The second domestication center is mainland southern China and Taiwan where S. sinense was a primary cultigen of the Austronesian peoples. Words for sugarcane exist in the Proto-Austronesian languages in Taiwan, reconstructed as *təbuS or **CebuS, which became *tebuh in Proto-Malayo-Polynesian.

  8. Sugar - Wikipedia

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    Sugar cane accounted for around 21% of the global crop production over the 2000–2021 period. The Americas was the leading region in the production of sugar cane (52% of the world total). [ 86 ] Global production of sugarcane in 2020 was 1.9 billion tonnes, with Brazil producing 40% of the world total and India 20% (table).

  9. Saccharum officinarum - Wikipedia

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    Saccharum officinarum is a large, strong-growing species of grass in the sugarcane genus. Its stout stalks are rich in sucrose , a disaccharide sugar which accumulates in the stalk internodes . It originated in New Guinea , [ 1 ] and is now cultivated in tropical and subtropical countries worldwide for the production of sugar , ethanol and ...